Who writes science books?

The last of the SciBookChat videos went up today! Well, I might make more in the future, but this was the end of the six I had prepared. Next year will start with a completely different video, and then there is another science/book-related one in the works, but not a chat.

Anyway, for this last video of the season, I pulled twenty books off my shelves to talk a bit about the authors. The previous videos I made all emphasized that there are lots of different kinds of books related to science: books about science, books about scientists, fiction, graphic novels, etc. This video is about all the different kinds of people that write science books: scientists, science writers, writers with no science background, groups of people, bloggers.

If you like seeing what people have on their bookshelves, you will enjoy this.

Also, I drink from an erlenmeyer flask, and I say dumb things in the outro at the end (like “I don’t always know when something is a dinosaur”), so stay tuned for that.

Books shown in this video:

Charles Darwin’s autobiography

The Double Helix – James Watson

The Two Cultures – CP Snow

Silent Spring – Rachel Carson

A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson

Microcosm – Carl Zimmer

Remarkable Creatures – Tracy Chevalier

The Honest Look – Jennifer Rohn

The Science of Discworld – Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who – Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula

Eva Amsen is a writer, science communicator and blogger. She has been writing about science and scientists in art/culture/life since 2005, both on this blog and for other sites and publications.
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